The following links are a series of articles that can help provide you with more information about mold:
Claims Magazine has a very informative article written for insurance claim adjusters and gives a quick guide for handling mold claims. The article also states that mold claims are handled somewhat differently than other claims because of the threat of adverse health effects.
http://www.claimsmag.com/Issues/2008/11/Pages/The-Fungus-Among-Us.aspx?k=mold
The National Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a good source of relevant information. Search for "Toxic Mold."
http://www.cdc.gov
The Federal Emergency Management Agency quotes an article from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that states how mold growth in water damaged homes can be a serious health hazard.
www.fema.gov/hu98/d1246n09.htm
Environmental Health Watch talks about the overwhelming consensus among scientists that mold and water damaged housing are threats to human health.
www.ehw.org/Healthy_House/HH_Toxic_Mold.htm
A Realty Times Article attempts to minimize the risks associated with toxic mold in homes and businesses (but eventually states that a health risk does in fact exist).
www.realtytimes.com/rtnews/rtcpages/20000406_mold.htm
Find out why the staff of California Job Journal feels so passionate about the public health danger of toxic mold.
www.jobjournal.com/mold/
The Bulletin Alternative News magazine- Unbeknownst to the Brunsons, the EIFS or Exterior Finishing and Insulation System product they had put on their home trapped water in their walls and eventually led to a deadly poison, stachybotrys mold, so dangerous that it almost cost the Brunsons the life of their stachybotrys mold, so dangerous that it almost cost the Brunsons the life of their daughter, Iris, before they discovered what was going on.
www.thebulletin.com/archives/2001/february/toxicmold.htm
Here is an online archive of articles related to mold.
http://www.onlinetips.org/instances-mold
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